The Green Office program

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• The Green Office program

Emma Faure, Lisa Ly and Linda Condon National
Centre for Sustainability Swinburne University of
Technology
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Outline - The Green Office Program

• Green Office Sustainability Covenant
• EPA covenant
• Learning from Others Guest speaker
• Paper Which is best?
• Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Swinburne Press
• Barriers to using recycled paper
• Office Assessment and Web help

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WHY are we here? - The Answer
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Why Care About Sustainability?
Because of growth ... exponentially ... against
limits
Global Trend Graphs From BBC Website, Planet
Under Pressure, 2004
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Sustainability Covenant with EPA

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• Forums, Focus groups and survey results
• Working with EPA Victoria
• Consultation process with key people from
  Swinburne
• Sustainable Swinburne Committee
• Launch late April early May

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Sustainability Covenant with EPA

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• The program for the year and we need your ideas!

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Learning from Others

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• Spreading the message work in teams if possible
• Getting change to happen small steps or well
  thought out
• Get commitment from managers and include staff
• Making it simple few choices
• Justifying the extra cost more costly paper
  use less
• Dont be argumentative be persuasive
• Prepare to accept feedback positive and
  negative
• Where to turn for help NCS

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Learning from Others

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• Figures are persuasive Swinburne used 67,800
  reams of paper in 2003
• 2203 trees
• Water 5 million litres
• Greenhouse emissions- nearly 1 million Kg of CO2

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• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Paper which is best?
• Our vision

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Paper Which is best?

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

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Paper Which is best?

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

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Paper Which is best?

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• Swinburne Press
• Make up recycled pads
• Examining the use of sustainable inks
• Recycled paper for all their work

• Barriers to using recycled paper
• Will jam in the photocopier
• Doesnt look white enough
• Doesnt grip properly
• Too expensive
• OTHER?

Lets test it!
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The Office Environmental Assessment

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment

• Importance of benchmarking
• Raises awareness
• Let people know and set a time
• Respect those who do not want to be involved
• The process
• Walk-Through survey
• Interviews
• Down loaded from - www.swin.edu.au/ncs/research-pr
  ojects/greenoffice/reps.htm

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Web help

• Sustainability Covenant
• Learning from others?
• Which paper is best?
• Office assessment and web help

• Posters and flyers
• Fostering a Green Culture in your Department
• Creating Green Spaces
• Print Photocopy Double-Sided
• Increase the Use of Scrap Paper
• Humorous posters as well
• http//www.swin.edu.au/ncs/research-projects/green
  office/reps.htm

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